hand-to-mouth
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˌhænd.təˈmaʊθ]
- 美式音标 [ˌhænd.təˈmaʊθ]
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- 美式发音
基本解释
- adj. 仅够糊口的,勉强维持生计的
英汉例句
- In Waterloo, Li lived the hand-to-mouth life of a grad student.
在滑铁卢,他过着研究生的紧紧巴巴的日子。 - Less-skilled women are trapped in poorly paid jobs with hand-to-mouth child-care arrangements.
技能欠缺的女性们被薪水微薄的工作和少得可怜的育儿补贴所困。 - It is the product of the shape of our bodies, how hand-to-mouth behaviour is built into (and rewarded in) our brains and the psychology of habit.
它是我们身体构造的产物,是手对嘴行为如何在人类大脑中建立以及习惯心理的产物。
3g.en8848.com.cn - "I can do things that are good for me,you know, not just try to exist hand-to-mouth or in survival mode,you know?
- For their superhuman efforts, they lived hand-to-mouth and month-to-month, just a few steps above welfare.
FORBES: How To Live A Mind-blowingly Amazing Life - In chess, although many would-be professionals lead a hand-to-mouth existence, the very top players can become millionaires.
ECONOMIST: Mind games - They live in near-constant silence, stoically bearing the drudgery of their hand-to-mouth existence.
NEWYORKER: Turin Horse, The
双语例句
原声例句
权威例句
词组短语
- Hand -to-Mouth Existence 仅够糊口
- hand -to-mouth life 仅足糊口的生活
- wooser 's hand-to-mouth life 兔宝的悲惨日常;兔宝的悲惨日常主题曲
- live a hand -to-mouth existence 勉强糊口
短语
英英字典
- having only just enough money to live
- A hand-to-mouth existence is a way of life in which you have hardly enough food or money to live on.
- Hand to mouth is also an adverb.
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柯林斯英英字典
专业释义
- 现挣现吃地;仅够糊口地